I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.